Guangdong

Guangdong is one of the most prosperous provinces in China. It is situated in the southern part of China mainland, and faces the South China Sea to the south. It also has 3,368km winding coastline which is the longest in China.
Guangdong became the most populous province in China in 2005, 110 million population which includes 79 million registered permanent residents and 31 million migrants who have lived there more than six months.
Guangdong’s summer is always hot, wet and lasts for a long time; typhoons hit it frequently in summer and autumn. Because Guangdong has a humid subtropical climate, you can see green plants and blooming flowers all year round.
Guangdong is a multicultural province, Cantonese cuisine is one of the attractive factors in Guangdong, and Cantonese Opera is a traditional Chinese art form which is popular in Cantonese speaking areas. Han opera , Hakka folk songs and Teochew Opera are also very traditional art forms in this province.
Light industry is the main industry in Guangdong, icluding food processing and manufacture of textiles, which is rather common in Guangdong. Lately tourism is also booming in Guangdong.

Technology & ESOL

After fire was found, our world started to change. People started to think and invent.
Nowadays we have more technological products than ever before and our everyday life has become mostly dependent on the technologies and it has become more and more beautiful as a result. As an English learner, we can also use the technology to help us with our learning.
Computers and Internet are many learner's favourite tools. Once you have a computer and connect it with the Internet, you can do many things. You can talk with others who are learning English as well as your teachers, your classmates and some fluent speakers. Joining a forum is a very good practice for your writing and thinking. Creating your own blog just like what we are doing now, is an excellent way to exchange your ideas.

There are many websites for learning English, they have many online activities and exercises. reading, writing, listening and speaking, they have everything. "Time4English" is a free English learning website, "voicethread" is a very good website to practise your speaking. See what we did, fantastic, isn't it?

Learning all day is a bit boring. Find some games, learning while playing. If you like music more than games, you also can find some English songs, don't forget to get the lyrics. On "yappr" you can get all the subtitles of their videos, but I'm afraid you have to pay now.

You can learn even with your mobile phone or ipod, your can listen to the radio while you are walking or on a train. Put a dictionary in your phone, your can check some new words which you can find in the street.

With technology, you can do all these things and more. Try now!

Tigers & Lions

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Tigers and lions are large carnivores of the cat family.

Tigers mostly native in eastern and southern Asia, they feature their near-white to reddish-orange fur overlay with black vertical strips, most of them carry the Chinese mark "Wang" on their forehead. Male tigers can reach 3 metres in length, and heaviest one can weigh more than 225kg. Wild tigers can eat as much as 18kg at one time which can last for several days. By contrast, tigers in the zoo may eat a prepared diet and vitamins, about 4.5kg meat per day.
Many tigers are facing endangered because of hunting and other reasons, the most critically endangered one is the South China Tiger which is also known as Amoy or Xianmen Tiger. Tigers can swim and climb, because of their fur they need swimming to cool off. Wild tigers live about 10-15 years while tigers in the zoo are expect to live to 16-20 years.



Lions mostly live in the grassy plains of eastern and southern Africa, the Asiatic Loin leave 290 in the Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat of India only, because of human population gowth and development make them loss their habitat, hunting, and so on.

Male loins all have a mane, and cam reach about 2.7 metres in length, and weigh about 250kg. They usually live in group whilst tigers like to live alone.

On average, loins live for about 15 years in the wild, but they can live for about 24 years in captivity.

Can they back to the wild? Are they guadually disappear?? What can we do to save them?

Building A

Building A in the Sydney Technical College (Ultimo TAFE college) is part of the earliest buildings in the NSW public education system, the first building purposely built as a technical college. This Federation Romanesque style building was built in 1891 by W E Kemp. He is the designer and the maker of this building. This old building is still in a good physical condition and has a high degree of original details intact.

It is a three storey brick building, it has a roof which was made of slate and ends by a central triangular parapet. On its second level, double semicircular arched recessed windows and sandstone carving are its main features. And it also has terracotta tiles on the window for decoration. Anyway it's a beautiful and stylish building.

I've never been there, so I haven't had the chance to look inside. If I had a chance to study there, I would tell you more about it.

09/09/09

A man said that his dog’s birthday was November 11th, and he pronounced it as one-one-one-one, which is funny because it sounds like a dog barking. Today is September 9th, 2009, o-nine, o-nine, o-nine, which is funny too.

My name’s Pei, I come from China but I now live in Sydney. I’ve only lived here for a short while, so I’m studying English at a technical college. Yesterday was a normal day in my life. I went to class, where we met Silvia in the morning, and we did some listening exercises. One of them was a little bit too fast for us, but if we listened two, three or more times we could catch the ideas. It’s good for us to practise like that. But it’s not very good to do it in class, because it needs time, so Silvia said she might give us an easier one next time, she’s quiet a good teacher.
After lunch it was Rosa’s class. Today is Rosa’s birthday, she might be a lucky girl because ‘9’ is a lucky number in China, and it means your happiness will last as long as your life. Rosa said there was also a car exhibition at TAFE today, but I missed it. What a pity!!
I went home with Maggie after class, and Jin always likes to go to the library! As soon as I came home I started to prepare this recount.